And let them know that I am Machiavel, admired am I by those that hate me most.The Jew Of Malta by Christopher Marlow

Putin’s Letter To America

After the G20 conference in Moscow wrapped up, Russia’s President Vladimir Putin had a message foer Americans about the folly of going to war in support of Al Qaeda’s effort to overthow the Assad regime and replace it with an Islamic theocracy.

I can’t vouch for the accuracy of the translation.

You Americans are dumb. Today, Russia and America are fighting each other over fighting the Muslim radicals. Instead, we should be uniting to crush these violent Islamists, once and for all.

You Americans want to remove my ally, the Syrian leader Bashar Al-Assad. To borrow a phrase from your John F. Kennedy, Assad may be a son-of-a-bitch, but hes my son-of-a-bitch.

So if you want to destroy him, what are you going to give me in return? If your answer is, We will give you nothing, well, why would I ever agree to that? Thats not negotiation, thats dictation; its a return to the bad Yeltsin days, when Holy Mother Russia was pushed into the mud like a used whore.

Look, Ill be the first to say that Obamas red line comment was dumb. Its obvious he hadnt thought it through; one can see it in the words he used to express his policy. He said that the red line would be crossed if a whole bunch of chemical weapons were used. What kind of language is that? How does one quantify a whole bunch? This is the President of the High-and-Mighty United States, and hes talking like a schoolboy? All for this silliness over sarin in Syria?

Do I think that Assad did it? Gassed those people? I dont know; Ive never asked him. Hes certainly capable of it, and yet only the Americans think that the case against Assad is a slam dunk. Everyone else agrees that the case is murky. Everyone else follows the first rule of intelligence-gathering: Consider the sourcenamely, the pro-rebel media. In this instance, the rebels were losing, and then they got gassedand now Uncle Sam is rushing to their side. How convenient.